Making peace with the past: transforming broken relationships

Although the importance of reconciliation is increasingly acknowledged by policymakers and practitioners, it is often viewed belatedly and purely as a post-conflict concern. This third Accord Insight reflects on approaches and challenges to address the legacies of violent conflict and stresses the need for efforts to transform relationships between and amongst people and institutions.

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The publication draws on important insights from a diversity of approaches in societies with different histories of violence and at very different stages on the conflict spectrum - the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict, Colombia, Mindanao (Philippines) and Northern Ireland.